Clerking in the South
Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2014 4:22 pm
I am a URM and I'll be clerking for a judge in Mississippi and I am slightly worried about any potential racism that might be there. Anyone have insight?
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I love the South, but that's just not true bro. Have you ever been to Mississippi or Alabama? Random daily interactions can be pretty rough race-wise.BVest wrote:No more a concern than anywhere else.
Extensively.Cicero76 wrote:I love the South, but that's just not true bro. Have you ever been to Mississippi or Alabama?BVest wrote:No more a concern than anywhere else.
No more so than anywhere else.Random daily interactions can be pretty rough race-wise.
My best friend went to college in Mobile, and his experience there with racism was much worse than in our home state. And he's white.BVest wrote:
And let's not forget, it's not like the OP's going to clerk in a town of 1500 on the side of Lookout Mountain. More like a small to medium city.
I've lived in the south my entire life. The people here are no more or less racist than anywhere else I've been.runinthefront wrote:Any person who tells you that the South is no different than anywhere else in the country, URM or otherwise, is just wrong. The statement is just....so wrong...on so many levels.
small town in south arkansas.runinthefront wrote:Where in the "South" have you lived? I should have edited my post to say explicitly "Deep South." I can only speak to Georgia and Florida, but ATL/Miami/Palm Beach (minus Loxahatchee)/most of Tampa/Orlando/other large cities are fine...but to say the race relations in smaller cities is on par with cities outside of the Deep South?arklaw13 wrote:I've lived in the south my entire life. The people here are no more or less racist than anywhere else I've been.runinthefront wrote:Any person who tells you that the South is no different than anywhere else in the country, URM or otherwise, is just wrong. The statement is just....so wrong...on so many levels.![]()
After living in a few large southern cities, I can tell you it's deep enough.runinthefront wrote:Arkansas is not considered part of the Deep South.
From Mississippi.runinthefront wrote:Where in the "South" have you lived? I should have edited my post to say explicitly "Deep South." I can only speak to Georgia and Florida, but ATL/Miami/Palm Beach (minus Loxahatchee)/most of Tampa/Orlando/other large cities are fine...but to say the race relations in smaller cities is on par with cities outside of the Deep South?arklaw13 wrote:I've lived in the south my entire life. The people here are no more or less racist than anywhere else I've been.runinthefront wrote:Any person who tells you that the South is no different than anywhere else in the country, URM or otherwise, is just wrong. The statement is just....so wrong...on so many levels.![]()
Ha. Obviously it's not, but that doesn't mean there aren't any differences between the north and the south.BVest wrote:The northeast. The well-known bastion of racial integration and harmony.
Lol what the fuck is this. I'm claiming Alabama, and the South generally, is more intolerant to people based on their skin color than where I am from in the north east. I also don't think it is even close. My undergrad was so much more segregated than any of my buddies schools in north. That's just a fact.BVest wrote:The northeast. The well-known bastion of racial integration and harmony.
Dear God please never venture out of our wonderful college town into real Alabama. You will hate it to the utmost extent.lawhopeful10 wrote:Went to the University of Alabama for undergrad and was from the north east. It is fucking laughable that people here actually claim the south is similar in terms of tolerance compared to other parts of the country. Our Greek system is segregated. The campus basically still has institutionalized racism. The OP might never see any of it, and I imagine people involved in the legal world are probably more tolerant than most but acting like racism is not worse in the south is outrageous.